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Louis Alphonse de Bourbon [2] (Spanish: Luis Alfonso Gonzalo Víctor Manuel Marco de Borbón y Martínez-Bordiú; [3] [4] [5] born 25 April 1974) is the head of the House of Bourbon. Members of his family formerly ruled France and other countries.
The Murder of the Bishop of Liège is an oil painting on canvas created in 1829 by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, showing the murder of Louis de Bourbon, Bishop of Liège by William I de La Marck's men during the 15th-century Wars of Liège, as told in chapter 22 of Walter Scott's historical novel Quentin Durward. [2]
Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (1279 – 1342), Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis and La Marche, and the first Duke of Bourbon; Louis II, Duke of Bourbon, called the Good (1337 – 1410), third Duke of Bourbon; Louis de Bourbon, Prince-Bishop of Liège (1438 – 1482), son of Charles I, Duke of Bourbon, and Agnes of Burgundy; Louis de Bourbon, comte de ...
A painting entitled The Bishop of Liege slain by order of William de la Marck, the "Wild Boar of Ardennes" by J. Franklin was published in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838 (engraved by E. Portbury) with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, as Death of Louis of Bourbon. [13]
Louis de Bourbon, 1st Prince of Condé (7 May 1530 – 13 March 1569) was a prominent Huguenot leader and general, the founder of the Condé branch of the House of Bourbon. Coming from a position of relative political unimportance during the reign of Henri II , Condé's support for the Huguenots, along with his leading role in the conspiracy of ...
He was godfather to Louis de Bourbon, Prince de la Roche-sur-Yon. He is sometimes called Francois-Louis, with Vendome Latinised as "Vendocimo". He was the nephew of Cardinal Philippe de Luxembourg (1495) and Charles II of Bourbon (1476). He was the uncle of Cardinal Charles II of Bourbon (1548), and great-uncle of Cardinal Charles III of ...
Louis III de Bourbon, Duc de Montpensier (10 June 1513 – 23 September 1582) [1] was the second Duke of Montpensier, a French Prince of the Blood, military commander and governor. He began his military career during the Italian Wars, and in 1557 was captured after the disastrous battle of Saint-Quentin .
Louis de Bourbon (Louis I, Count of Vendôme) (1376 – December 21, 1446), younger son of John I, Count of La Marche and Catherine de Vendôme, was a French prince du sang, as well as Count of Vendôme from 1393, and Count of Castres from 1425 until his death. [1]